Love You To The Moon And Back

A start-up San Francisco-based company offers a service allowing customers to send ashes of deceased loved ones into space.

13:10 04 September 2015

A start-up San Francisco-based company is offering an unusual service where customers can send the ashes of their loved ones into the space. The first customer to use the service of Elysium Space, is 30-year-old Steven Jenks who will be sending the ashes of his mother, Sheryl Ann Jenks, to the moon’s surface through the company’s memorial package.

 

"I'm doing this for my family. We are spread out across the country and this way we can look at the moon and take comfort in knowing that mom is with us," said Steven, who lost his mother to lung cancer.

 

"It's along the same lines of being buried in a cemetery, but instead of going to one location to feel some form of comfort all you have to do is look at the moon.”

 

Steven, a soldier stationed in Iraq, often receives letters from his mom. All the letters were signed off using this touching message: "No matter how lonely you feel and how far you are, always look at the Moon and know I am with you. I love you to the Moon and back. Love, Mom."